Printing and furnishing system



- Aug. 25, 1936.

I A. SATTLER v 2,052,252

PRINTING AND FURNISHING SYSTEM Filed July 27, 1932 barren stares ears Patented Aug. 25, 1936 PRINTING AND FUBNHSHING SYSTEM Alexander Sattler, Brux, Czechoslovakia Application July 27, 1932, Serial No. 625,107 In Czechoslovakia August 3, 1931 2 Claims.

The object of my invention is to provide means for automatically furnishing Webs capable to be converted to newspapers, with articles as additional sheets or illustrating pictures, labels, samples, advertising bills or the like.

The invention is particularly adapted forthe use of printers employing rotary printing presses.

The further object of the invention is to affix said articles made adhesive by paste-carrying means to a web forwarded with the speed of rotary printing cylinders printing said web on one or both surfaces.

My invention contemplates the use of a system for printing web and furnishing it with labels continuously in combination of a printing machine or rotary press with a device receiving said labels from a stack and supplying them to the web without interrupting the printing of said web.

In the accompanying drawing:-Figure 1 is a sectional view through the'entire machine; Fig. 2 is a top view illustrating a detail on a larger scale; and Fig. 3 is a side view of said detail.

A web-reel l rotatably mounted is partly embraced by a brake band 2 which is connected with a weight 3 tending to press said brake band against a circumferential portion of the web-reel. The web 3 is fed from the reel across rollers 5, 6, l, M, 35, 9, and IE to printing cylinders 8 and H. The printing cyinder 8 serves for printing one surface of the web, and the cylinder l I serves for printing theother surface of said web.

The mechanism for advancing the web t comprises the shaft of said printing cylinder 8 journaled in bearings not shown and operating a toothed wheel 92 secured on said shaft and advancing a toothed wheel It by means of intermediate gear wheels I3, Hi, and [5. The shaft of the wheel it is provided with a sprocket wheel H from which a chain l9 extends to a sprocketwheel 18 arranged on the shaft of a paste-applying device.

The paste-applying device comprises a pastetrough 26, a paste-feeding roller 2| rotatably mounted within said paste-trough 20, a pastedistributing roller 22 adjacent to said feeding roller and a group of paste transmitting rollers 23, 2d, 25, 2B cooperating with an endless transporting band or belt 21 extending from a pulley 29 to a pulley 28. The pulleys 23 and 29 serve to forward the belt 21 at the same speed at which the web l is passing the surface of the printing cylinders. Suitable means are provided, by which the belt is operated dependently of the printing cylinders. For example, the means comprise a pulley 36 which is attached to the shaft of the wheel I55 and is equal in diameter to the cylinder 8. At

3? is indicated a belt traveling over the pulley 36 and over a pulley which is attached to the shaft of the roller 26. This belt 3'! may drive the roller 26 at the same surface speed as that at which the cylinder 8 has moved, and this roller 26 may produce by its friction the rotation of the belts 21. The lower trace of said band or belt 2'! passes between a vertically reciprocating plate 30 and a stack 32 of sheets, samples or bills arranged one above another. The stack 32 of sheets is carried by a plate 3 i. In the constructional embodiment of the invention represented in the drawing a plurality of belts 2i spaced from another and extended from plurality of pulleys 28 to a plurality of pulleys 29.

To the hub of the wheel H is attached a crank 6i and a crank pin 42 connected by a link 43 to a pin id secured at one terminal portion of the plate 38 the other terminal portion of which carries a pin @5 bearing in a bracket 56. This means is provided for depressing the plate periodically in timed relation with the printing mechanism 3, 9, IE H.

The plate 36 is reciprocated to depress the belts 2? against the uppermost sheet of the stack and to cause said belt to make adhesive and to forward said sheet. A belt-tightening pulley 40 is provided,

When the printing machine is operated, the web t runs from the web-reel I across the rollers 5, 6, l, 3d, 35, 9, and i0 and will be printed on both surfaces by means of the printing cylinders 3 and M respectively. The roller M is rotated by the chain i9 operated by the shaft of the printing machine and will be covered with paste. The roller 22 distributes the paste across the roller 25 thereby refusing a surplus of paste. Preferably the roller 22 may be adjustably arranged.

The roller 23 is journaled atan arm attached to a shaft by which a tilting movement is rendered to said arm for moving the roller 23 alternately toward the pasting rollers 2i and 2 3. At this tilting movement the roller 23 transmits paste from the roller 2! to the roller 24, which 45 coats the bottom face of the belts 2'! with adhesive. The belts 2'5 made adhesive by the paste transmitted are depressed upon the uppermost sheet of the stack 32 for receiving said sheet.

A stripper comprising guiding fingers 33 is arranged between the belt 27 and the sheet receiving roller 35. The belt 2'! transposes said enclosure along said guiding fingers 33 upon a predetermined portion of the paper 4, therefore the speed of the roller 28 and 29 is chosen to accommodate it to the speed of the Web 4 travelling above the surfaces of the printing cylinders 8 and I I. When the web 4 is furnished with the sheets or other articles, it may be folded and divided in usual manner.

Having thus described the invention what I claim as new and desire to obtain by Letters Patent is:

1. In a rotary web printing press, the combination of the mechanism for driving the rotary printing cylinders with a sheet pasting and feeding belt, rollers arranged with their shafts in stationary bearings and carrying said belt travelling at the same speed as the surface of said printing cylinders, a device for pasting said belt, a gear meshing with a wheel or" said printing cylinders to cooperate with said device of pasting, a support carrying a stack of sheets, belt guiding means arranged between the said rollers to de-- press said belt in respect to said stack for transferring its topmost sheet to said belt, a pathway for a web guided by said printing cylinders, and means for guiding said sheets to said pathway.

2. In a rotary web printing press, the combination of the mechanism for driving the rotary printing cylinders with a plurality of sheet pasting and feeding belts spaced from another, rollers arranged with their shafts in stationary bearings and carrying said belts travelling at the same speed as said printing cylinders, a device for pasting said belts, a gear meshing with a wheel of said printing cylinders to cooperate with the latter device, a support carrying a stack of sheets, a belt guiding plate arranged between said rollers to depress said belts in respect to said stack for transferring its topmost sheet to said belts, a pathway for a web transported by said printing cylinders, and stripping means arranged at the level of and spaced laterally from said belts for stripping said sheets to guide them to said pathway.

ALEXANDER SATTLER. 

